Timothy J. Lynch

Tim Lynch is Associate Professor in American Politics in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He specialises in the history, politics and ideology of American foreign policy. His books include Turf War: the Clinton Administration and Northern Ireland (Ashgate, 2004) and US Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion (Routledge, 2013). His co-authored book (with RS Singh), After Bush: the Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy (Cambridge, 2008), won the Richard Neustadt Book Prize and became a best-selling international security text. He is editor of the two-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History (2013). He is currently writing a Cambridge history of post-cold war US foreign policy.

Experience

2005–2010

Senior Lecturer, University of London

2003–2005

Lecturer, University of Leicester

2000–2003

Director, Boston College Centre for Irish Programmes, Dublin

Education

2003

Boston College, PhD (Fulbright Scholar)

1995

University of London, MA

1993

University of East Anglia, BA (Hons)

Publications

2013

Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History, Oxford University Press

2013

US Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion, Routledge

2008

After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy (with R.S. Singh), Cambridge University Press